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Developed roads make National Forest sites accessible to tourists and nature lovers in the United States.

The importance of roads and highways in the development of United States. Developed roads make the natural wonders of the National Forests accessible to tourists. Snow covered mountain surrounded by trees. Roads help nature lovers reach and see the scenic places in the forests. View from a tunnel. A lake amidst the mountains in a forest. Public highways serve the nation's needs and promote progress and prosperity.

Date: 1929
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031478
General Motors guidelines for maintaining private cars during World War II, when none were manufactured in the U.S.A.

General Motors film entitled: "It's up to US," explains how to maintain private cars during World War 2, when all manufacturers switched to production of war materiel. Bugler, in U.S. Army uniform, blows reveille. Montage of American scenes, including homes and gardens; mountains; forests and lumberjacks felling a tree; an oil well gusher spewing crude oil; open pit mining operations; Niagara falls; flock of sheep grazing; workers picking cotton and it being delivered to a processing plant by horse-drawn wagon; a large timber log being cut into boards in a lumber mill; steel being manufactured for the war effort; a woman housewife or homemaker saving foods in a refrigerator in a vintage 1940s kitchen; a man cutting his lawn; a woman vacuuming her carpet; a woman taking clothes from a washing machine; a farmer plowing with a tractor; automobiles on American road and in parking lot of a defense plant. A driver with worn and dented 1938 Chevrolet Coupe car parked in front of a home is assisted by another who drives up behind him in a 1941 Oldsmobile and gives him a push. Sign at a Chevrolet service garage reading: "Official O.P.A. Tire Inspection Station." A 1942 Chevrolet 2-door fastback car drives into the garage. Mechanic greets driver and begins routine service, including: adding distilled water to battery; draining oil from car up on hydraulic lift. Scene shifts to a mechanic lubricates fittings on a 1937 Chevy on a lift at a gas station. Scene reverts to the earlier garage where mechanic drains cooling system, and refills it. The mechanic removes the carburetor and services it on a bench. He checks distributor rotor and makes compression checks. He cleans and re-gaps spark plugs, and checks tires and brakes. Cars driving on a town street. Mechanic aligning wheels on 1941 Chevrolet. Animated illustrations of tire wear from alignment problems. Servicing air in tire of 1942 2-door Chevy. More animated illustrations of tire problems. Illustrated explanation of rotation for bias tires.

Date: 1943
Duration: 8 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036559
Divers search for dead bodies in Lake Michigan after a barge upturned in the lake in Chicago, Illinois.

A sand and gravel barge upturns in Lake Michigan, Chicago, Illinois. A diver climbs down a staircase into the lake to search for dead bodies. Men aboard a rescue vessel. A diver comes aboard the vessel. A boat underway at the lake as the search for dead bodies continues.

Date: 1936, August 3
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049688
Cars move on a road, cross a small bridge and a lake at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, United States.

Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, United States. View from moving vehicle in the park. Many 1960s cars and recreational vehicles (RV) drive past on a road. Trees on either side of the road. The cars stop at the South Entrance station and then move one after the other. They drive past a lake. Trees in the foreground. A car drives across a small bridge. The cars driving past. A dense forest on either side. The lake in the foreground. A road alongside the lake. Sign for West Thumb area.The car moves on the road. A village area and information center and cars parked at a parking lot. People walk on a pathway.

Date: 1960, August 6
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068834
Building of roads through National Parks and forests in United States

Men with horse carts on Mount Hood loop road that circles the peak in Oregon National Park. View of Mount Hood. Car drives on a road through Crater Lake National forest. View of crater lake.

Date: 1923
Duration: 2 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025635
University of Illinois Gymnasts Team perform gymnastics in Champaign Illinois.

University of Illinois Gymnasts Team pose before camera and show off their gymnastics skills at a field in Champaign Illinois. Gymnasts tumble, twirl and somersault through the air. April 1938.

Date: 1938, April
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028781